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Venereal Disease.
The statistics show an alarming increase in number of eases of V.D. and also in the number
of abortions.
Atersia.
The use of salt and alum in midwifery cases conducted by the Arabs continues in spite of all
advice, and during the year many cases have been seen among quite young women only recently
confined for the first time, and now injured irreparably for life, much work will be required to eradicate
this evil.
LAND REGISTRATION DEPARTMENT.

{From the report of Khan Sahib Mohammed Khalil Memon, Superintendent, Land
Registration Department).
Only routine work was done during the year, there wore no special surveys. Fees amounting
to Rs. 22,348 were collected from registrations on 738 sales, gifts and registrations of titles, though the
number of registrations was less than in 1362 yet the fees were almost double owing to the high prices
which were paid by purchasers of property. Out of the registrations 536 were sales, 147 were regis­
tration of titles and 55 were gifts. During the first half of the year the boom in land values appeared
to have reached its height, in the second-half of the year prices remained stationary and there was less
demand for properties. It was generally believed that owing to the expansion of various commercial
concerns and the services the value of land in Bahrain was unlikely to drop after the war. This
assumption may be correct in the case of house property in Manama but it is unlikely to be true in
the case of gardens in distant parts of the islands many of which have been bought at excessively
high prices by naturalised Bahrain subjects and foreigners who have made fortunes from war time
trading. Though the price of dates caused a rise in garden rents this condition is only a temporary
one. The value of house property has risen partly owing to the impossibility of building at present
and because of the high cost of repairs but the following list of transactions in open ground or small
gardens which took place during the year gives an indication of the present trend of land values:—
Date when 1363 Sale
Property. previously Price. Price.
sold.
Rs. Rs.
Open land on south edge of Manama, 4,230
square feet............................................ 1357 1,000 6,000
Site on Daly Road, 5,625 square feet 1362 500 2,000
Site in Fariq al-Makharka south district of
Manama, 6,721 square feet 1361 2,000 8.000
Same neighbourhood, area 33,000 square feet.. 1357 367 7.000
A small garden at Sanabis with a surface well,
area 70,000 square feet 1357 1,300 4,000
Garden at Musallah, no artesian well, area
10,600 square feet................................. 1358 450 1.500
New cultivation at Budeya, artesian water
but not yet productive, area 644,000
square feet 1362 12,000 29,000
Open land in Guzabia, Manama suburb, area
8,700 square feet ................................. 1360 700 3.000

The number of land cases pending in the Bahrain Courts has been greatly reduced since the
creation of two senior courts in place of one court, the change was made towards the end of 1363
and at the close of the year only 100 cases had not been dealt with. The Superintendent of the Land
Registration Department and some of the Land Department staff assisted in the reorganisation of the
Judicial Department.